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Updated over 5 years ago,
Anyone use Real Property Management of Greater Milwaukee?
I've been with them for a year now and I'm less than impressed. I initially chose this management company for my 8 unit in Brown Deer because of all their positive Google reviews but I now strongly suspect that their reviews are fake. They are almost all from people who have only left one review and they are all overly positive.
When we started out things were fine. All 8 units were occupied when I purchased the property so they really didn't have to do to much work. In June one tenant moved out without notice. I said I wanted the unit painted and new carpet installed. It took them forever to get these two things done. It took them 4 weeks to get the unit painted and then my property manager suggested that I contact some carpet installers because I could probably get it done faster and for a better price. Two weeks later and Lowes had my new carpet installed that I completely scheduled and organized.
Two weeks ago I started really grilling my property manager on why the unit was still vacant and she said that there was one person who expressed some interest but never scheduled a showing. I got pissed so I created my own Facebook marketplace add for the unit and in the last 2 weeks I've had over 100 people (seriously not an exaggeration) contact me via FB messenger about the listing. I've been forwarding them to the leasing agent and telling them to schedule a showing.
Am I being unrealistic on what a property manager should be doing?!? I schedule the contractors. I market the unit. Isn't that what I'm paying them for. When I have one of my self managed units come open I have it turned and rented in 2 weeks MAX. Four months and counting for a basic vacancy is way to long in my opinion.